The pedagogical approach in which students acquire knowledge and skills by working over an extended period to investigate and respond to an authentic, complex real-world question or problem, rather than through lecture or rote memorization.
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Central QuestionCan students build deeper, more transferable knowledge by working through an extended, authentic project than by receiving the same content through direct teacher-led instruction? 1 Most Effective ForDisadvantaged schools and classrooms working on complex, real-world problems, where research associates project-based learning with higher test scores and gains in self-esteem and attitude toward learning. 2 Project-Based Learning
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Design Thinking in Education's own live entity-description: adopted particularly in project-based STEM and entrepreneurship programs from the 2010s onward.
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1. Edutopia
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students actively explore real-world problems and challenges and acquire transferable knowledge
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a teaching method that involves a dynamic classroom approach in which it is believed that students acquire a deeper knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems
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obtain higher test scores than students in traditional classroom
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whole-hearted purposeful activity proceeding in a social environment
Developed By: William Heard Kilpatrick, Project method page
In the early 20th Century, William Heard Kilpatrick expanded the project method into a philosophy of education.
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